A pregnant water vole. This is her burrow, and she will fight to the death to defend it. [ Voles squeaking ] ♪♪ Being less experienced, the best option is to flee.

Emily Luck, water vole officer at PTES said the "vole-unteers" would be asked to pick from a series of set walks and look for signs of water voles, such as burrows and "green and brown tic-tac ...

Not so the mink, especially the bloodthirsty females, who can and do follow water voles down their burrows and wipe out entire families. (What the mink COVID-19 outbreaks taught us about pandemics.) ...

Water voles gained full legal protection in the UK in 2008. ... almost like miniature beavers in the way they fell stems, make burrows and alter the landscape.

Welsh families are being urged to join the battle to stop one of the country’s best loved and most threatened species, the water vole – popularly characterised as Ratty in Wind in the Willows ...

He added: “One of water voles’ main predators is mink. If you have a very simple burn or loch, it’s easy for mink to find the water voles’ burrows – and the female mink is small enough ...

They're cute, they're furry and they're ruining the garden. It's time to get tough. Meadow voles, also known as field mice, are longer and plumper than house mice. Brown with stubby inch-long ...

The water vole's defences, diving beneath the water and kicking up a screen of dirt or hiding in their burrows, were insufficient. A female mink can fit into water-vole burrows and wipe out entire ...

Water voles like Ratty from The Wind In The Willows could see a population boost as wildlife trusts reintroduce them to British wetlands. Once common species is declining faster than any other ...

A rare creature listed as one of Britain's fastest declining mammals has been photographed along a Dorset river ...